Manned Drone Races Are Coming

We all knew that hobby drone technology would eventually scale up into manned flight and we've already seen countless home built and commercial ventures teasing manned drone flight for personal transportation. One Australian start up has plans to take it past recreation and transportation and head straight to the races.

Would You Pilot a Flying Car?

We all knew that hobby drone technology would eventually scale up into manned flight and we've already seen countless home built and commercial ventures teasing manned drone flight for personal transportation. One Australian start up has plans to take it past recreation and transportation and head straight to the races.

The company Alauda has built prototypes of a drone called the Alauda Mark 1 Airspeeder, a manned flying race car. It looks like a futuristic Stars Wars land speeder with motors stuck on the sides, but this quadcopter drone will be capable of carrying a human to skies for an aerial race like no one has ever seen before. Plans are to host the first ever flying car race within the next couple of years, but we're a little skeptical. While the technology exists to make this work, the logistics seem like a nightmare. When you start pushing the limits, crashes and failure are guaranteed to happen. That's dangerous enough on the ground, so it will be interesting to see what safety measures they implement to protect the pilots.

Flying Car races are going to be a thing, we're just not sure it will happen within the next two years.

Somewhere I saw a video of another manned multi rotor, the pilot stood in the middle, and was surrounded by large rotors. Even tho he was in a "tub", it looked like he could potentially be thrown into the rotors if he hit something.

Don't get too wrapped up in semantics guys. The word drone is there for search rankings. It actually can and does fly unmanned like a drone, but when a pilot is inside, it's flown by the pilot directly.